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Why use NFS over AFP or SMB? The technique is basically the same but at least AFP and SMB are encrypted...
by __david__ 16y ago
Why use NFS over AFP or SMB? The technique is basically the same but at least AFP and SMB are encrypted...
- a904guy 16y agoI've already implemented AFP via netatalk. I'll do a write up on the process in a bit. Personally I don't much care for SMB... but I've implemented it as well for our Windows boxes to backup over.
- js2 16y agoAFP and SMB are not encrypted AFAIK. Maybe you mean the authentication is not in clear text, but the data transfer is. (NFS doesn't really have authentication unless you use Kerberos, which doesn't pass cleartext credentials either.)
- jws 16y agoFor AFP on anything but OS X, netatalk was missing a flush-to-disk command and failed the last time I surveyed. Various samba versions have been implicated in backups that are corrupt when when you go to read them. There are enough people successfully using samba now for time capsule that I suspect that issue is a thing of the past or restricted to certain NAS devices. Time Machine is a big enough bandwidth user that I presume we are talking LAN, and for many people their LAN is secure enough.